Fight Back Fridays August 7th

Welcome to another Fight Back Friday, everyone! Today we’re bringing together a collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution.

Who are they? Why, they’re the Food Renegades. You know who you are — lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food, the list goes on. I believe that by joining together, our influence can grow, and we can change the way America (and the industrialized world) eats!

So, let’s have some fun.

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About the Author

Kristen Michaelis is a passionate advocate for REAL FOOD -- food that's sustainable, organic, local, and traditionally-prepared according to the wisdom of our ancestors. While she adores hats & happy skirts, nothing inspires her quite like geeking out over nutrition & sustainable agriculture. Nutrition educator & author extraordinaire, she's also a rebel with a cause who enjoys playing in the rain, a good bottle of Caol Ila scotch, curling up with a page-turning book, sunbathing on her hammock, and watching her three children grow into young adults.

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For those of you who have been following Every Kitchen Table on Fight Back Fridays, you have read a number of posts that have built the foundational thinking underneath Pro Food.

This week’s submission on FoodRenegade represents the complete list of those posts with a short description. And while you won’t likely have time to read all of them, I hope it serves as a resource that allows you and others to better understand Pro Food, its core values and how it will help food entrepreneurs develop alternative food systems focused on sustainable food.

My wife and I have found it frustrating to walk into Whole Foods Market and almost immediately see an enormous candy display, and then go over to their prepared foods and find that most include canola oil. According to a newspaper story yesterday, WFM has gotten the message about the “junk” in their stores and they intend to clean up their act and become healthier, so to speak. My post this week quotes their CEO on the changes they intend to usher in and I include some thoughts of my own from our local Whole Foods store. .-= Charles

In true “Fight Back” spirit, I submit this week’s post. It was by a circular that came in the Sunday paper advertising how “healthy and nutritious Kellogg’s breakfast’s are for kids!”. My article is an expose (read: rant) against the misinformation painted in bright colored, cartooned marketing and uncovering the lies spewed forth by big business at the expense of our kids’ health. Warning: Post is a bit snarky.

This Friday, I posted on Reason No. 4,298 to Go Organic. Not that there are a given number of reasons, but rather, there are too many to count. This week in response to all the mainstream maligning of organic food vs. convention, I discuss a little-known reason to eat organic that may convince even the greatest organic skeptic. .-= Dawn @ SmallFootprintFamily.com

This week my post is a recipe for a flourless, Refined Sugar-free Chocolate Jaffa Cake! I also have another post which is showing below (how to open a young thai coconut- however that is not the one i’m trying to show..the one i’m trying to show is:

my submission this week is about my meeting the mn governor tim pawlenty’s residence manager and communications director about what the governor eats, why – and how – he’s turning to local food, and what it says about their food policy.

This article is a must read, about how soy monocropping in the third world is destroying, despoiling and poisoning. Send it to everyone you know who thinks soy is a health food. It may change their mind! .-= Kimberly

This week I wrote about my contribution to Dessert Corps, a wonderful initiative of my local soup kitchen to get volunteers to bring homebaked, fresh desserts for the diners, rather than the food “product” of store packaged desserts that sit on the shelf for years and are the only cheap alternative. It is a great idea that other towns and cities should consider as well. This helps cut the reliance on unhealthy alternatives even for those cooking for those who eat their meals at a soup kitchen. A bit of food justice for those who often don’t even have the funds to consider these types of issues. .-= Jen

I finally picked up Nourishing Traditions and wrote a review of it on my blog this week. What a fabulous book! I am still working through the recipe section, but I was completely enthralled by the intro.

My post is (gasp) not about food, but it’s so “Fight Back!” that I couldn’t help linking up. Perhaps you use antibacterial soap in your kitchen…hopefully not. Are you sick of the world causing bacterial resistance and other issues by our rampant overuse of antibacterial products that we DON’T NEED? Visit for a letter you can dash to Bath and Body Works venting a little. It will take 60 seconds and make you feel gooooooood! Thanks!http://www.kitchenstewardship.com/2009/08/05/call-to-action-bath-and-body-works-anti-antibacterial-soap-letter/ .-= Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship

Was wondering if anyone else had read the reviews of Nourishing Traditions on Amazon? There was a lot of positive feedback about the book, but the negative feedback was an interesting read, too. Among the many comments, one said the author herself is very overweight and that the author believes it is natural to gain that much weight as she aged. Is she following the advice of her boook, and if I follow it will I, too, gain even more weight instead of losing it and my health problems?

Inspired by Julia Child (and the film Julie & Julia), my son and I made a blueberry clafoutis. If only I could express in words the cuteness of my 3-yr-old learning to say “cla-FOO-tee!” .-= Colleen/FoodieTots

In baking school they taught us all of the DO’s and DON’Ts of baking an angel food cake. It was a big deal. Stressed to follow these rules – always!

Some time ago I found my Great Grandmother’s recipe for Yellow Angel Food Cake. YELLOW? Who ever heard of such a thing?! But she was a professional cook – a fabulous cook – and this was her recipe, in her script – and it works. Not only that – it’s amazing. And relatively easy! My baking school instructors would faint dead away! .-= dina

I’m supposed to be on vacation this weekend, but I had to sneak away and share a fun post about, well it is more fun if you just take a peek at “my illicit lactose intolerant love affair” and see for yourself.

One of the fun things about vacations is that you discover new things – we tried a new probiotic drink so next friday I’ll have to share that story as well… Have a wonderful weekend! .-= Earth Friendly Goodies

We started making our own kefir a few months ago – and since then, I’ve been trying to come up with fun ways to eat it. Not all my family members like it as is, but I want them to eat it regularly. Would love for others to add their uses for kefir. Thanks, Kristen! .-= Wardeh @ GNOWFGLINS